ParaQ:Summit 08/2005

Kitware Inc., Clifton Park, NY 31 August 2005

Documents

• Agenda
• Design document

Presentations

• Berk: "ParaView's Past Mistakes"
• Andy: ParaView's Vision

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Attendees

• Elemtech
  • Corey McBride, Ray Meyers, Clinton Stimpson
• Kitware
  • Andrej Cedilnik, Dave DeMarle, Berk Geveci, Ken Martin, Amy Squillacote
• Sandia
  • Ken Moreland, Brian Wylie, Gary Templet, Andy Wilson, David Rogers, David Karelitz, Matthew Wong

ParaView 'Areas of Improvement' Notes

• State
  • There are problems when a state is applied to a different file
• Wizards
  • Open/write a file
• Cut/Copy/Paste
• Functional vs. implementation
• Object selection/operation interactions (like a drawing package)
  • "bold", "italic", like Word
• Logical grouping
  • Processing elements (filters, sources)
  • Hierarchical attributes
  • Data objects
• Configurable interface
  • Macro (including UI definition)
  • Skinning (implementation of branding)
• Selection is a first class operation
• Undo/Redo
• 'Too many clicks'
• Need 'Abort' operation
• Presentation output
  • Movies
  • Images
  • Plotting output
• Multiview
  • Linking
  • Views
  • Timesteps
  • Colormaps
  • Cutplanes
  • Timstep
  • Cutplane
  • Attributes
  • Glyphs
• "Specialness of some objects"
  • They aren't consistently represented in UI
• Quantitative/Drill down
  • Interactive vs. static
  • Plotting (reference BLOT?)
    • 2D
    • 3D
• General export (not just from probe)
• Time
• Hide implementation
  • Logical vs. filter operations
  • Point/Cell cenetered data
• Hierarchy representation
• Intelligent browsing
• Global Accept
  • Show 'out of sync'
• Integrated

ParaQ Strawman Scheduling

• Q4 2005 (Demo capability)
  • Requirements
    • Super simple
    • Multiview
    • Quantitative
    • Macros
    • Animation (play timesteps)
    • Parallel
    • Client/Server
    • Testing Framework
    • Views
      • Hierarchy Editor
      • Inspector
      • Geometry
      • Palette
      • SESAME
    • Linking
      • Selection
      • Data
    • Client side graphs
      • Histogram
      • Scatterplot
      • Linegraph
    • Filetypes
      • Exodus
      • Ensight
      • vtk
      • xdmf
    • Small number of filters (10)
    • General
      • Volume rendering
      • "Fast path" operations

Decisions

• Kitware will host CVS repository, bug tracker, testing machines, and wiki.
• Telecon meetings will be held every Tuesday at 1PM EST.
• Ken Moreland, Mark Richardson, and someone to be named at Kitware will lead the plotting effort, which includes short-term deliverables for client-side plotting, and a long-term deliverable of parallel graphing capability.

Action Items

• [ET] Determine technical solution for Qt testing.
• [BW] Create demo script, which will guide the development timeline.
• [DR] Create Microsoft Project schedule. Put in wiki.
• [BW] Coordinate videoconference equipment and setup.
• [KW] Create CVS repository and accounts, mailing list, bug tracker.
• [BW] Determine guidelines for GPL'd Qt stuff. Put info in wiki.
• [DR] Renew FNR paperwork
• [KM/BG] Design ParaView Multiview architecture, and determine delivery timeline.
• [CM] Create straw man class architecture for ParaView Server API.
• [DR] Create document for group describing Model/View architecture discussion.
• [KM/MR/?] Create plotting design document.
• [BW] Determine customer contact for plotting project.
• [BW] Forward list of people who need cvs access to Kitware. This will include only those people with valid Qt developer licenses.